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Dr. Denise Pollard-Knight, Ph.D. serves as the Managing Partner and Director of Phase4 Partners. Dr. Pollard-Knight is responsible for leading the team’s investment activities. Ms. Pollard-Knight joined Phase4 Partners in 1999 and is also actively involved in the United States and European investments, especially spin-outs. Since January 1999, she has served as the Head of Healthcare Private Equity at Nomura International plc and has been responsible for Nomura's BioPharma ... investment activities. Dr. Pollard-Knight has been a venture capitalist for over 11 years. Prior to this, she was an Investment Manager in the Bioscience Unit of Rothschild Asset Management Ltd. from January 1997 to January 1999. Dr. Pollard-Knight also held several senior research and development management positions and in strategic consulting at Amersham-Pharmacia and Fisons plc and was a main Board Director of Scientific Generics. She serves as Chairman of Supervisory Board at Nabriva Therapeutics AG. She served as Chairman of Supervisory board of Nabriva Therapeutics AG since July 2012. She has been Vice Chairman of Supervisory board of Nabriva Therapeutics AG since July 2012. She is the Chairman of Nabriva and serves on the boards of Albireo and Cerimon. She was an independent Director of Idenix until 2014. He served as a Director of Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. from May 2003 to August 2014. Dr. Pollard-Knight also serves as a Director of Cerimon Pharmaceuticals, Inc, since October 26, 2005. She has been a Director of OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since October 2008. She served as a Director of Evotec (Göttingen) AG and Viacell Inc. since October 2003 and as a Board Observer of Ark Therapeutics. Dr. Pollard-Knight is a Member of the Board of Trustees and Council of the British Heart Foundation. She was the recipient of the “Women in the City” award for Finance in 2008. Dr. Denise Pollard-Knight holds a Ph.D. and a B.Sc. (Hons) degree with honors from the University of Birmingham and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Pollard-Knight also holds a diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors.

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